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The Stories We Tell

I serve in volunteer parent leadership at my daughter’s middle school. We’ve been struggling to get volunteers to help with our events.  One of the things we realized is that for years the recruitment strategy in middle school has been to tell parents we...

Affordable Childcare

Throughout the history of SFC including children in our ministry has been really important. When we made the move to Portland we saved lots of our daughter’s old toys so that we’d have options for wee ones at the house.  Over the year we’ve done...

Taize

A year ago I signed up to visit Taize, France with my daughter. It was something I had been hoping to do for years. When we arrived on  July 22nd, my 41st birthday, we had ridden in a bus all night from London.  We were tired, but it was exciting to arrive and head to...

Happy New Year

A new year is a traditional time to make resolutions and plan for the year ahead.  Here are my hopes and some of the plans our clergy and lay leadership are working on for the Parish in the year ahead. Keep reading this blog for details on our progress as we follow...